DAVID MOYES today challenged Louis Saha to rediscover the goal-grabbing form that convinced Everton to hand him a new two-year deal.

The Blues boss knows his players need to improve their quality in the final third of the pitch if they are to recover from Saturday’s derby defeat by beating Chelsea.

And he wants Saha, who has only scored once in his last eight appearances despite notching 13 overall this season, to lead the way.

He said: “If we can get our centre-forwards right I think we can cause Chelsea problems.

“I’m looking for Louis to contribute more goals. A lot of his goals have come in the early part of the season.

“He has great talent and ability. He does thrive on a lot of confidence and needs that confidence and self belief.

“We’ve shown a lot of confidence in him in keeping him here and we want him to get the goals to go with it.

“He has played well in some games lately, but he hasn’t got the goals and we want him to get that goal-scoring form back.”

Moyes insists Saha, who was tracked by Spurs and Arsenal before signing a new deal last Friday, has the qualities that can command big transfer fees in other players.

He said: “Louis is a player who has that level of quality that people are looking for.

“But I would argue that in the last few games we have missed quality in the final third that only money can purchase.

“Louis is a top player, Yak came on too on Saturday, we have Pienaar, Donovan and Cahill too, and we are looking for those kind of attacking players to score goals and be creative.

“One of the hard parts is to try and challenge when you are looking at a different standard of player.”

A career first victory over Chelsea would be the perfect way for Moyes to celebrate his 300th league game as Everton manager, but the Scot is wary of how losing Marouane Fellaini through injury will affect his side.

He said: “It is a massive blow to lose him. It was noticeable how much we missed him when he went off on Saturday.

“He has been a really influential player for us but at least, in terms of numbers, we are not struggling to fill that role now.

“His ankle was swollen terribly by the time we got back to Finch Farm on Saturday.

“It was the size of an elephant’s ankle and it shocked me how bad it looked. I couldn’t tell you if he’ll be out for three days or much longer, it would be wrong to speculate at this stage, but we opted for the train to London because we didn’t want to sit him in a car for the journey.”

Steven Pienaar will also miss tonight’s game after his sending off at Anfield, and Moyes may hand recalls to fit-again Jack Rodwell or midfielder Diniyar Bilyaletdinov.

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